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If you have MS, you’ve likely heard about or even experienced firsthand its close relationship with optic neuritis, a condition that causes a wide range of vision problems. Ophthalmologists who specialize in optic neuritis and other MS-related vision trouble explain what causes optic neuritis, which symptoms it most commonly causes and how best to treat it. And, as always, you’ll have a chance to ask the experts your questions.
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My doctor never called it optic neuritis but there was a time not long ago where I only saw double, crooked or barely at all. I guess I had a little optic neuritis to go with my vertigo. Good times, good times.
denverrefashionista, there can be other visual disturbances associated with MS. What you experienced was not Optic Neuritis. It’s a very specific condition caused by a lesion on the optic nerve.
Hey there Mile High Fashion Gal, I echo “anonymous’” posting above. I suffer from a lesion right around the optic nerve, but not optic neuritis. It caused diplopia (which eventually cleared up) — that diplopia caused blurred and double vision and damaged the optic nerve muscle area so I still have problems with peripheral vision, but I escaped neuritis.
thank you clearing that up–my docotr never called it optic neurtiis–made reference to the optic nerve–each time it went away, always with steriods, still leaving my vision and eyes sensitve to light and heat.